尾 U+5C3E, 尾 ← 尽[U+5C3D] CJK Unified Ideographs 尿 →[U+5C3F]
尾 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+4, 7 strokes, Cangjie input 尸竹手山 (SHQU), four-corner 77214, composition ⿸尸毛)
- 娓, 捤, 梶, 浘, 艉, 䅏, 䊊, 䜸, 䞔, 䬿
- 荱, 䇻, 㞙, 屗, 屘, 趘
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 300, character 16
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7650
- Dae Jaweon: page 596, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 966, character 16
- Unihan data for U+5C3E
simp. and trad. 尾 alternative forms
Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 尸 (“person”) + 毛 (“hair; feather”).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lməj (“tail; penis”) (STEDT). Cognate with Mizo mei (“tail”), Tibetan རྨེད (rmed, “tail; crupper of saddle”), Chepang मेः (meʔ, “tail”), Burmese အမြီး (a.mri:, “tail”).
尾
- tail (Classifier: 條／条 c; 支 mn)
- end
- last; final
- Classifier for fish, snakes, shrimps, etc. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
- 我过想看见你，肖一尾自由自在个小鱼 [Teochew, simp.]我過想看見你，肖一尾自由自在個小魚 [Teochew, trad.]ua2 guê3 sion6 toin2 gin3 le2, siao6 zêg8 bhuê2 ze6 iu5 ze6 zai6 gai5 sio2 he5 [Peng’im]I want to see you be like a carefree little fish
- (～宿) (Chinese astronomy) Tail (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)
- (tail):
- (classifier):
- “尾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[3], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014-
- “尾”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2026.
(Jōyō kanji)
- Go-on: み (mi)
- Kan-on: び (bi, Jōyō)
- Kun: お (o, 尾, Jōyō)←を (wo, 尾, historical)
Kanji in this term 尾 おGrade: S kun’yomi
/wo/ → /o/
From Old Japanese 尾 (wo), from Proto-Japonic *bo.[1]
First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE in the senses “tail” and “foot of a mountain”.[2]
- (Tokyo) お [óꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[3][4]
- IPA(key): [o̞]
尾(お) • (o) ←を (wo)?
- tail
- foot of a mountain
- end of something
- (tail): 尻(しっ)尾(ぽ) (shippo)
- (foot of a mountain): 麓(ふもと) (fumoto), 山麓(さんろく) (sanroku)
Kanji in this term 尾 びGrade: S kan’on
From Middle Chinese 尾 (MC mj+jX).
- (Tokyo) び [bíꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[3]
- IPA(key): [bʲi]
尾(び) • (bi)
- tail
- 尾(び)宿(しゅく) (Bishuku, “Tail”)
尾(び) • (-bi)
- fish, shrimp
尾(び) • (Bi)
- (Chinese astronomy) Tail Hypernyms: 青竜, 二十八宿
- 尾(び)宿(しゅく) (Bishuku), 足(あし)垂(た)れ星(ぼし) (Ashitareboshi)
- “尾”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia][4] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015-2026
尾 (eumhun 꼬리 미 (kkori mi))
- hanja form? of 미 (“tail, extremity”)
- hanja form? of 미 (“end, stern”)
尾: Hán Việt readings: vĩ[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] 尾: Nôm readings: vẻ[1][2][7], vạy[1][2], vấy[1][2], vẽ[1][2], vả[1][3], vãi[1][4], vỉ[1][7], vải[5][7], vẩy[1], vẫy[2], vã[3], vải[3], vía[7], vảy[7]
- chữ Hán form of vĩ (“tail; (music) bow”)
- chữ Nôm form of vả (“(only in compounds) besides, again”)
- chữ Nôm form of vãi (“Buddhist nun”)
- chữ Nôm form of vấy (“to stain”)
- chữ Nôm form of vẻ
- used in vắng vẻ (“quiet; deserted; unfrequented”)
- used in vui vẻ (“happy; joyful”)
- chữ Nôm form of vẽ (“to draw; to paint”)
- chữ Nôm form of vỉ (“trellis matting (used to lag bottom of a double boiler (chõ), usually made of bamboo)”)
